Mr. Chair, please, if the member would permit, there is a distinction that needs to be made between a technical authority and a contracting authority. When we testified the last time, because you brought up the media, I brought this up.
The Botler allegations kept calling us the contracting authorities. We did not have that authority. We could not sign for contracts and we could not implement things that added cost to the government. We could, however, sign for scope. There's a very big difference, and I think that shows the naïveté of the people who made the allegations in the first place and it was what caused the snowball to roll.
Thank you.